Crystal River current. [volume] (Crystal, Colo.) 1886-18??, 1887-07-02
BATHING.

the cody, The average Cincinnatian
is great bataer, Every house making
any pretensions to modern improve
ment has its bathroom, while the pub
lie lighthouses all agree that patronage
is good and steady growing better.
What Il panacea of all ills the bath-tub
is! When you have bad cold you
take a bath; when your head aches you
take a bath If you have a chill or
fever, pain or an ache, into the bath
tub you plunge. If you're tired and
weary and dusty the first thing you
think of is bath If you've been out
all night with the boys the first place
you make for in the morning is the
bathroom. On occasions of that kind
bath feels rs fine rs L good nights
sleep and square meal thrown in. A
man always feels better and Younger
and looks younger and better, and will
give larger "tip' to the waiter and a
more cheerful mite to the beggar after
bath than before it. The bath is
AS OLD AS THE HILLS.
1t comes down from the Most remote
antiquity. The Egyptians used to
battle in the Nile. The Hebrews made
bathing compulsory by law, and the
Mohammedans and uindoos enforce it
as a duty of religion. Public baths
were among the public institutions of
the ancient Egyptians, Greeks and
Romans. If Pharoah' lovely daughter
hadn't gone bathing in the Nile, Moses
might never have been discovered in
the bullrushes. If Nausicaa and her
fair companions had not bathed them
selves in the waters of the sea, the
shipwrecked Ulysses might never have
been rescued. SO it VII be seen that
the bath is hoary, venerable and pa
triarchial. But
TIE PRIMITIVE BATH
Was II simple process compared with
the elaborate bath of modern times.
The primitive bath was merely
plunge into the lmpid water of some
flowing stream. Now the bath is
scientific process, presided over by
competent attendants and regulated by
the watch and the thermometer. The
bath most popular with the American
people. barring, of course. the do
nestle tub, is the Turkish bath. Why
it is called Turkish" srtrpasscth all
understanding. 1t is probably, though,
because the Turks recline in IL most
luxuriant bath IN perfumed water,
while about the edges of the marble
basin grow fragrant flowers and
blooming rose-trccs. filing the apart
ment with their r;lvishng scent. The
Turkish bath was first introduced into
England about the middle of the sos
by a nobleman, David Urqnhart by
name. who had received the impression
IN THE oRIENTS.
This country adopted the Turkish
bath about twenty-five years ago.
Have you ever taken Turkish bathP
1T in lao.
win Forrest you "have never risen to
the dignity of being personally clean"
When you go to Il Turkish bath house
you first enter the Office, where YOU reg
ister, deposit your valuablcs and receive
IL check for them. Then you pass into
the Muctaly. ..Muctal," must be the
Turk for cool room. At am rate nue.
italy is the cool room. In one of the
numerous compartments of this apart
ment YOU disrobe and invest yourself in
a bathing garment. then you pass into
the warm room, the Tepidanum, they
call it, where YOU encounter Il tempera-
turc of 120 to 40 degrees Fahrenheit
Here you
RECLINE ON COUCH
Until the perspirat on is freely started.
When the skin has become sufficiently
soft and moist--thc attendant frequently
=. passes his hand over the body to ascer-
tain if it has arrived Mt the proper state
You are ushered INTO the not room,
which Is PLAN English Tor the calida-
num- as the apartment is called, where
the temperature is forty degrees higher
Than IN the warm room. In the hot
room the attendants lay you upon
heated marble slab, and the perspira-
ton becomes more and more profuse,
while the attendant thoroughly manip-
ulates the body with towel@ From
this room you pass INTO II
STILL HOTTER HOT ROOM
Where the temperature Is 22O to 24O
degrees. You perspire few more